Malaysiakini : “We will have a strict/precise definition. If you deliberately and
repeatedly destroy the harmony of society, causing harm to people,
buildings and others, this is considered an offence.” -
Mujahid Yusof Rawa, on the proposed Anti-Discrimination Act, National
Harmony and Reconciliation Commission Act and the Religious and Racial
Hatred Act.

Lim Kit Siang

COMMENT | Anyone
who reads my columns knows what I think of Pakatan Harapan’s efforts to
curb free speech with its proposed hate speech laws, but what surprises
me – and it should not – is the hypocrisy that permeates the discourse
when it comes to Harapan’s commitment to ensuring racial and religious
harmony. When it comes to these proposed hate speech laws, it does
not matter where you stand on the issue. What matters is Harapan’s
response to supposed hate speech when it comes to non-Malay power
structures and the mendacity of mainstream political power groups –
Malay and non-Malay – when it comes to the racial politics of this
country.

The recent allegations by former Bersatu vice-president Hamidah Osman that Lim Kit Siang (above)
engineered the creation of Bersatu to drain Malay votes from Umno is
the kind of talk that theoretically should run afoul of whatever hate
speech laws the mandarins of Putrajaya are brewing. Instead, what
it becomes is another way in which the Harapan government resorts to the
kind of identity politics, which ultimately will be its downfall.

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